Gresham Road Cambridge

75 addresses across 4 postcodes (CB1), about 350 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5400374.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £479,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 35 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 17, D: 11, E: 4, F: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cambridge costs £2,467 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cambridge, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cannons Green, is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 12 to 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 77 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Petersfield Medical Practice, about 380 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 25% of households owned their home and 69% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 93 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£479,000£479,000£479,000
20062£347,500£340,000£355,000
20031£511,000£511,000£511,000
20021£730,000£730,000£730,000
19961£264,000£264,000£264,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Nov 20251 CB1 2EPFlat or maisonette£479,000Leasehold.
11 Aug 20061 CB1 2EPFlat or maisonette£355,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Jul 20061A CB1 2EPFlat or maisonette£340,000New build. Leasehold.
5 Sep 20038 CB1 2EPSemi-detached£511,000
18 Oct 20023A CB1 2EPDetached£730,000
31 Jan 199610 CB1 2EPSemi-detached£264,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

35 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: Flat (21); House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (3). Built: before 1900 (10); 1967-1975 (9); 2003-2006 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (16); owner-occupied (10).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cambridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,467 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,645£1,919£2,193£2,467£3,015£3,563£4,112£4,934

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (20% of about 1,530 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, New Town And Glisson Road, Mill Road (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 36 protected trees on or by this street; in a protected area: 3 Gresham Road.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 2 September 2026: CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Core Sampling, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 22 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CB1 2EPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CB1 2EHnot in 2 or 3 3 / 6 / 18 unlikely
CB1 2EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CB1 2ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The street's 77 addresses are between 12 m and 13 m above sea level (12 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CB1 2EB100%100%100%0%
CB1 2EL100%100%100%0%
CB1 2EP100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsCambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–25600 m (0.4 miles)
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Shelford (Cambs) 222,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Paul's Road Cambridge240 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge940 m (0.6 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queen Anne Terrace Car Park320 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Queen Anne Terrace, Cambridge340 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN35.6 km (22 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Petersfield Medical Practice380 m
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gft Davies & Co.260 m
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cambridge Dencare120 m
HospitalNuffeild Health Cambridge Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationParkside Police Station550 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Cambridge Mill Road West Cashzone340 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cannons Green 480 m²240 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Cambridge University Botanic Garden 16 ha360 m
Play area11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 70 m²340 m
Playing fieldColeridge Recreation Ground 5.1 ha890 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsEmpty Common Allotments 1.7 ha930 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 27 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wanstead House, a listed building (Grade II*), 280 m west. 192 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 9 of them Grade I and 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wanstead HouseListed building, Grade II*280 m west
The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and the English Martyrs, CambridgeListed building, Grade I330 m west
The David Parr HouseListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Mill Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II610 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Botanic Garden, CambridgeRegistered park or garden, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Downing College, the East and West Ranges, Including the Hall, the Master's Lodge and the East and West LodgesListed building, Grade I640 m (0.4 miles) west
Hobson's ConduitScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) west
Cambridge Museum Of Technology (formerly Cheddars Lane Sewage Pumping Station)Scheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Cambridge Castle moundScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Robinson Crusoe IslandWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Mill PitLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
The BacksLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Castle HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Giants GraveValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Chesterton FenWetland4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6930
60 to 6440
55 to 59120
Under 555877

19 of the street's 77 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Alban's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11340 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Pauls CofE VA Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11390 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cambridge Maths School16 plus16–19540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Parkside Community CollegeSecondary11–16720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Matthew's Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brunswick Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hills Road Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Newnham Croft Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Ridgefield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Philip's CofE Aided Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Park Street CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Cambridge Kids Club @ Sancton Wood CB1 2EZSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Cambridge Muslim College CB1 2EZSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
HARVEY ROAD DAY NURSERY CB1 2ETHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good6 Jun 2025
St Andrews and Cardiff Colleges CB1 2HASchool/college/university200 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Salisbury Arms CB1 2DWPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good9 Aug 2025
Poke Stop CB2 1NWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good25 Jan 2026
The Emperor Public House CB2 1NWPub/bar/nightclub220 m2 Improvement necessary3 Jun 2026
Pasta Evangelists CB2 1NWTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m4 Good28 Aug 2025
Smashburger / Diips Cambridge CB2 1NWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good28 Oct 2024
The Live and Let Live CB1 2EAPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good10 Nov 2022
Golpo Bengal Café and Restaurant. CB2 1LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Tesco CB2 1NWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good25 Jan 2025
Domino's Pizza CB2 1LATakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good5 Jun 2025
Maison Clement CB2 1LARetailers - other240 m4 Good13 Sep 2025
Tawa Bites CB2 1LATakeaway/sandwich shop250 m4 Good2 Feb 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

93 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Anti-social behaviour17
Bicycle theft11
Other theft8
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson6
Vehicle crime5
Robbery3
Drugs3
Theft from the person3
Shoplifting2
Other crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Paul'S Place (31); On or near Tenison Road (15); On or near Harvey Road (14); On or near Gresham Road (12); On or near Lyndewode Road (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 582 residents in 118 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age2640
Children under 154%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)25%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented58%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work28%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van10%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle36%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)69%34%
No qualifications4%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CB1 2EP: 33 addresses of 36 in the postcode
  • CB1 2EH: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • CB1 2EB: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • CB1 2EL: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St Paul's Road · Cambridge Place · Lyndewode Road · Glisson Road · St Pauls Walk · Mawson Road · Harvey Road · Drosier Road · St Paul's Place · Wilkin Street · Fenners Lawn · Tenison Avenue

All the streets in CB1 and across Cambridge.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.